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Sharpe

However it was the character Richard Sharpe that he would become most associated with. Bean was the first choice to play Sharpe, but was unavailable; so the part went to Paul McGann. Two days into filming, however, McGann was injured in a football match, and, although the producers initially tried to work around his injury, eventually he was replaced with Bean, who was by then available. The 14-episode Sharpe television series was based on Bernard Cornwell's novels about the Napoleonic Wars and started with Sharpe's Rifles. The series followed the fortunes of Richard Sharpe as he rose from Sergeant to Lieutenant Colonel by the time of the Battle of Waterloo. It ran from 1993 to 1997 with 3 episodes produced each year. After several years of rumours, more episodes were produced, called Sharpe's Challenge, which aired in April 2006, and Sharpe's Peril which will air on ITV in the autumn of 2008 and will later be released on DVD. Bean also played the role of Lord Richard Fenton in the

More about Sean Bean (From Wikipedia)

Early Career

He graduated from RADA in 1983 having won the Silver Medal for his performance in Waiting for Godot. He made his professional acting dÃ©but in 1983 at the Watermill Theatre in read more...

Sharpe

However it was the character Richard Sharpe that he would become most associated with. Bean was the first choice to play Sharpe, but was unavailable; so the part went to Paul McGann. read more...

Hollywood

His first notable Hollywood appearance was as an Irish republican terrorist in the 1992 film adaptation of Patriot Games.

This would be the first of several villains that he read more...

The Lord Of The Rings

His most widely seen role was as Boromir in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, although his only major part was in the first film, only appearing briefly in the extended read more...

Recent Career

Later roles gave more scope for his acting abilities. He became the repentant Grammaton cleric who gives in to his emotions in Equilibrium in 2002, a quirky alien cowboy in 2003's read more...

Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English film and stage actor. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions as well as performing voice work for computer games read more...

He has been married four times and subsequently divorced three times. His first marriage was to high-school sweetheart Debra James on 11 April 1981, which broke up when he moved read more...

Sean Bean is yet to receive a major individual award in the film industry. However he did receive 3 separate awards as part of the ensemble cast in Return of the King,: from the read more...